Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT FOR ISSUE 2 🪐🗡️

If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ author of speculative fiction or poetry, send us your work! We can't wait to read it! You have until 11:59 pm Eastern!

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

A copy of the graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea. The cover shows a figure walking away from an ocean. The figure's shadow stretches out long and looming behind them.

We're thrilled that Fred Fordham's graphic novel adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic!

Poster of a young woman typing on a laptop announcing submissions are opem for the Sprawl Mag until May 31

The Sprawl Mag is open for submissions! Check out our guidelines here: www.thesprawlmag.ca/submissions

Unreliable narrators.
So difficult to get right, but so satisfying when you do.

a man sitting at a table with his mouth wide open Alt: Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec sitting at a table making an OMG face.

When you're stalking your submissions on the grinder and the red rejection lines move past the date you submitted and you haven't gotten a rejection email yet...🤞

🤢

I'm never going to understand why I should not love immigrants just as much as I love anyone else. It's like the biggest moral issue of our times for a lot of people and it's totally meaningless. Lemme solve it real quick: line on map doesn't matter, human matters.

I would want to write a limited series of the Dharma Initiative vs the Others in the 70s timeline that ends with the truce. Yes, I am the only person that wants more LOST.

I would travel, be curious, learn new things. Read soooo many books. And rest.

it's national library week, please go ask your local public librarians for a book recommend; we need a break from the photocopier. #booksky

One of many.

That’s wonderful!

Theirs is a special kind of magic ✨

I hope you have a cool title like Book Detective 🕵️‍♂️

Thank her for her service. 💙

Librarians are amazing. You can ask them about a book you think might have been a dream, but you’re pretty sure you read when you were eleven and the cover was blue…and they’ll find it! 💙📚

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Don't judge your first drafts. They aren't good or bad, they just are. Their job is to exist and you build from there. It's so much easier to start writing when you take that pressure away.

I would travel, be curious, learn new things. Read soooo many books. And rest.

It took forever to open just now. 😕

Took a peak at my submission spreadsheet and 95% of my subs are due for a response in May. 😬😬😬 Don't know how that happened.

Every Galaxy a Circle Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

It's never too late or too early to write a review online for a book you like. Just sayi--whoops I tripped and dropped this link:

Good morning,
This week is gonna happen whether you write down that story you've been daydreaming about or not. Might as well write it.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

They had such great questions. How fun!

Last night was the first night of the year I got to sleep with the window open. 🥰 Temps are going to tank in a few days, so I'm going to enjoy it while I can.

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

Today I:
-Got a story ready for submission
-Mowed the lawn
-Chatted with the neighbor without being awkward
-Ran 4.5 miles
-Clean Sheet Day!!!

I hope your Saturday was what you needed it to be.

Happy ‘Sinners’ Day!

One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.